![]() ![]() The quartet, with Toto at their sides, face off against the Wicked Witch’s many tricks - including flying monkeys - as they try to get to the “great and powerful Oz.” The bumbling Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) who just wants a brain the Tin Man (Jack Haley) who would like a heart and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who just wants a little courage. With guidance from Glinda the Goodwitch (Billie Burke) - who conveniently disappears after that - Dorothy begins to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City where the Wizard of Oz can help get her home.Īlong the way she meets a few friends. Don’t you just hate when accidents like that happen? There she finds herself in the cross hairs of the Wicked Witch of the West’s (Margaret Hamilton) wrath after she accidentally kills the woman’s sister, the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy is caught up in a tornado, her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in the storm cellar with their three farm hands, and soon finds herself whisked away to the world of Oz. ![]() ![]() Frank Baum’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” released in 1900 and centers around Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland). With its famous tunes such as “Over the Rainbow” and “We’re Off to see the Wizard” and familiar lines like “Toto I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore” everyone has heard a reference to this movie even without having watched it. Obviously this movie, which was released in 1939 by MGM Studios, is well known by everyone. ![]()
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